Sphereing/Satelites
I guess this really begs the following questions...
1: Why bother adding a country to your sphere? What advantage, if any, do you get from it? Just seems like land you are forbidding yourself from ever conquering. You miss out on the population and resources that land has
2: What point is there to releasing land as a dominion/domain or satellite? Again, seems like you are just weakening your own nation by giving up land and resources.
I could see sphereing if there was a way, an option, to diplo-annex them later as was the case in EU3. But I really have to ask, as I am in a game as Japan and I don't see any point to adding a country to my sphere. (Also Transvaal just had a gold rush, and I got a free conquest CB on them which almost never happens. Sadly, I added Transvaal and Zulu to my CBs to try and checkmate the UK's South African interests)